Adobe Illustrator CC Getting Started — A 1 day course

Synopsis

The Adobe Illustrator CC Getting Started course is the aimed at those with little or no experience using Illustrator, so if you are looking to get up to speed quickly this is a good place to start. Taught by Adobe Certified Instructors with many years experience using Illustrator, you will learn best practice right from the start and a wealth of new techniques.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course you will:

Understand the difference between vector and raster images

Be able to create artwork in Illustrator such as logos, technical drawings, typography and illustrations

Know how to customise the Illustrator interface to improve efficiency and work better

Understand and be able to organise your layers, artboards, templates, etc..

Apply colours, gradients and a wide range of effects to your illustrations

Save your illustrations for reuse in both print and web using formats such as ai, pdf, svg and more

Contents

Illustrator overview

What are vectors

What are Bezier curves

The pen tools

Creating shapes

The pen tool

Primitive shapes

Adding/deleting anchor points

Creating Bezier curves

Combining shapes

Creating outlines from text

The shape builder tool

The blend tool

Editing shapes

Adjusting existing shapes

Cutting paths

Combining paths and shapes

Erasing paths and shapes

Organising your work

Artboards

Custom artboards

Layers

Sub-layers

Layer properties

Templates

Group Isolation mode

Colour

Choosing a colour

Using swatches

Saving your swatches

Spot colours

Process colours

Global colours

Stroke and fill

Creating strokes

Creating fill

Applying colour to strokes and fills

Transforming shapes

Duplicating

Moving, rotating

Reflecting, Shearing

Scaling

Step and repeat

Transform again

Effects

3D

Stylize

Distort & Transform

Warp

Organising your effects

Text

Adding text

Text within a a shape

Text on a shape

Controlling text

Creating outlines from text

Saving and Exporting

Saving options

Exporting options

Exporting to pdf

Other export formats

Using Illustrator with other applications

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

A schedule of dates for this subject is not currently available. Please call 0333 210 0140 or use our contact form to enquire about places and availability.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course you should be comfortable using a computer to perform basic functions such as copy and paste, and opening applications and files. You should also be comfortable using the internet, for example for browsing and interacting with websites.